Word Meanings - ILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon.

Additional info about word: ILL

1. Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable. Neither is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak. 2. Contrary to good, in a moral sense; evil; wicked; wrong; iniquitious; naughtly; bad; improper. Of his own body he was ill, and gave The clergy ill example. Shak. 3. Sick; indisposed; unwell; diseased; disordered; as, ill of a fever. I am in health, I breathe, and see thee ill. Shak. 4. Not according with rule, fitness, or propriety; incorrect; rude; unpolished; inelegant. That 's an ill phrase. Shak. Ill at ease, uneasy; uncomfortable; anxious. "I am very ill at ease." Shak. -- Ill blood, enmity; resentment. -- Ill breeding, want of good breeding; rudeness. -- Ill fame, ill or bad repute; as, a house of ill fame, a house where lewd persons meet for illicit intercourse. -- Ill humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. An unkind act. A slight attack of illness. -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevolence. Syn. -- Bad; evil; wrong; wicked; sick; unwell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ILL)

• Harm
• Hurt
• mischief
• injury
• detriment
• damage
• evil
• wrong
• misfortune
• ill
• mishap
• Oil in ill
• Hatred
• offensiveness
• dislike
• invidiousness
• jealousy
• unpopularity
• grudge
• Resent
• Repel
• resist
• rebel
• recalcitrate
• take ill
• Sick
• Diseased
• disordered
• distempered
• indisposed
• weak
• riling
• feeble
• morbid
• nauseated
• disgusted
• corrupt
• impaired
• valetudinarian

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ILL)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to ILL)

• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• AMELIORATE
  To grow better; to meliorate; as, wine ameliorates by age.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• REBELLOW
  To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• RILL
  To run a small stream. Prior.
• DISTEMPER
  1. An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts. Bacon. Note: This meaning and most of the following are to be referred to the Galenical doctrine of the four "humors" in man. See Humor. According to the old physicians, these
• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• REPELLENT
  A remedy to repel from a tumefied part the fluids which render it tumid. Dunglison. 3. A kind of waterproof cloth. Knight. (more info) 1. That which repels.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
  Coarse meal.
• WRONG
  1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly;
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• SUNDRILY
  In sundry ways; variously.
• VENTRILOQUY
  See VENTRILOQUISM
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• CASCARILLA
  A euphorbiaceous West Indian shrub ; also, its aromatic bark. Cascarilla bark , the bark of Croton Eleutheria. It has an aromatic odor and a warm, spicy, bitter taste, and when burnt emits a musky odor. It is used as a gentle tonic,
• SACRILEGIOUS
  Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• PROMISSORILY
  In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
• UNWARILY
  In an unwary manner.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• PECTORILOQUY
  The distinct articulation of the sounds of a patient's voice, heard on applying the ear to the chest in auscultation. It usually indicates some morbid change in the lungs or pleural cavity.
• CAVO-RILIEVO
  Hollow relief; sculpture in relief within a sinking made for the purpose, so no part of it projects beyond the plain surface around.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• PALTRILY
  In a paltry manner.
• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• MAUNDRIL
  A pick with two prongs, to pry with.